Write every day! - December 2020 - Day 1

[zwei_hexen]

Welcome everybody to another round of WED! I hope you've all survived this crazy year as well as possible until now, and also not done too badly writing-wise. To all those who tackled NaNoWriMo and similar writing challenges, congratulations for participating, keeping strong, fighting the empty pages and of course winning!

Please don't hesitate to ask sylvanwitch or ysilme any questions you have.

Tally for January 2020:
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Let us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.
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ysilme here: Please excuse me for sticking to the technical barebones so far; I've had an extremely draining family situation yesterday, a horrible night, and resolving but even more draining events today. I'll write about my writing goals and plans in a day or so, but today I'll leave the field for sylvanwitch. I'm looking forward to host again and talk to you, after having made myself so rare these last months.


sylvanwitch here: Welcome one and all! I'm so glad we're sharing this month with you, and I'm very much looking forward to hearing about your writing projects.  My plan for December is to finish the novel I've been working on for months.    I'm at 106.5K words on it now, and I'm hoping to finish the first draft by the end of 2020.  Generally, I shoot for 500 words/day, but to make it to the end before the year's done, I'll need to do at least 800 words/day, so that's my goal. 

Comments

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for words! :-)

[sylvanwitch]

*snorts* As usual, a really light load, I see. Lol! *winks*

Outstanding word count for the day! Wooo-hooo! I hope the Buffy story is finally unstuck for you.

[sylvanwitch]

It's great to be here and exciting to see you, too! Yay!

And poetry--woooo-hooo! I love it!

[sylvanwitch]

Good luck finding your motivation for the novel. I hope the Muse is kind to you and that your new goal helps to rev you up. I know about post-NaNo slump and can definitely relate, though I haven't done NaNo myself in years.

340 is not nothing! That's great! GO YOU!

[sylvanwitch]

Your weekly updates are masterworks unto themselves, so I can appreciate the planning that goes into them.

Good luck on the WIP--I hope you find the determination and motivation you need to get it done. YAY for words of any and all sorts but ESPecially the kind that lead to finishing something that's being tricksy.

Re: Dec 1 check-in

[sylvanwitch]

As someone who had a secondary antagonist show up halfway through the novel and before the actual antagonist was introduced, I empathize with your plight, and I hope you find a way to reveal him that works for your story structure. Writing, why does it have to be like this? Lol!

[sanguinity]

Haha, nope, if anything this feels a bit more everything-at-once than usual. The exchange I mod has just started posting, which is maybe the second-busiest period of the cycle. (I'm scheduling works, posting works, chasing down late works, arranging for last minute pinch-hitters...) Meanwhile there are birthdays and holidays, because yo, December. And... well, to be blunt, my biggest job duty scales linearly with COVID deaths, which... is shaping up to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

Which is to say: I take my notebook off by myself at lunch and write something, and it is delightfully irrelevant to every and any thing in my life that matters. Which is such a welcome relief, I can't tell you.

[ysilme]

Welcome to zwei_hexen and WED this month, and good luck with your writing goals! 400 sounds like a neat word count for the day!

[ysilme]

Good to see you again, too, welcome back! Congrats to managing every day so far, and best of luck with keeping it up in December, and for your writing goals!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I'm doing my best to despite RL problems.

[ysilme]

Thank you, you, too! Congrats to the great word count, too, that's awesome! What (new) hobbies did you acquire/tood you away from the keyboard? I started seriously crocheting during the first lockdown (have always been a knitter but never crocheted anything beyond potholders) and did a cuddly granny square blanket which the cats love even more than we do (I'm currently doing small versions for them so we can use the big one ourselves *g* ), although my big distractor this year has been yet another playthrough of Skyrim. I've been playing this on and off for a couple of years, but never for so long with such an intensity before.

[ysilme]

Hi, welcome to zwei_hexen and to this month of WED! Congrats to the awesome word count and result, too, that's terrific, and good luck with your writing goals! *\O/*

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. I noodled the Buffy thing a little but I really need help with it

[china_shop]

♥ ♥ ♥

[ysilme]

Welcome back! Congrats to your result, that sounds awesome!

[ysilme]

Good luck with your writing goals!

[ysilme]

Welcome back, and good look with your writing goals this month! :o)

[ysilme]

Welcome to zwei_hexen, and good luck with your writing goals! I'd say having analysed the problem is going to make all the difference now!

[ysilme]

Welcome back at zwei_hexen, and congratulations for having met your annual goals already! ***\O/*** Good luck on your plans for this month!
And thank you. We'll just have to muddle through.

[ysilme]

Welcome back, and go you! That's a solid word count.

[ysilme]

Three days in and I'm already behind... *hides* Best of luck with your novel and your plans, hon, and for reaching your word count goals! ♥

[ysilme]

Thank you! The family issue was resolved, which was the draining part, but I'm afraid I cut my tale down too much for the public entry here, so that got lost. ;op
It's good to have you around again, and look at you! What a great word count, congrats! ***\O/***

[ysilme]

Welcome back, it's lovely to have you again! This looks like a good result for your writing day, too!

[cornerofmadness]

that's good and thanks

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you, my friend! I’m struggling with a heavier-than-expected workload, but commenting makes for a nice break from grading, etc. Good luck with your own stresses, hon! Big, big *HUGS*